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September 10, 2001

Biotechnology in the 
Capital Region
Part 1:
Imaging and Bioengineering
 

September 13-16, 2001

Rensselaerville, New York, USA



SCHEDULE OF SPEAKERS

Thursday (9/13)
7:30 - 9:00 PM   Opening Session
7:30  Dr. C. Mannella (Albany Conference Fdn.)
Welcome
7:40  Dr. R. Bessette (NYSTAR)
Discovery Drives Progress:  NYS' Biotech Future
8:00  Dr. D. Dean (NIBIB/NIH)
Partnering for Research Opportunities in the 21st Century:  A Perspective from NIH's Newest Institute
Friday (9/14)  Bioengineering Day
9:00 - 11:45 AM    Tissue Engineering Session
Chairs:  Robert Spilker (RPI) and Harold Singer (AMC)
9:00  Dennis Metzger (AMC)
Extracellular Matrix as a Xenogeneic Scaffold for Tissue Remodeling
9:25  Robert Spilker (RPI
Functional Tissue Engineering:  The Role of Computational Modeling and Simulation
9:50  Victor Rizzo (AMC)
Mechanical Forces are Transduced into Biochemical Signals within Microdomains of the Plasma Membrane
10:15  Break
10:30 Deepak Vashishth (RPI)
Mechanobiology of Aging Bone: Strategies for Tissue Repair and Regeneration
10:55 Livingston Van De Water (AMC)
Extracellular Matrix Protein Function During Wound Healing
11:20 Rena Bizios (RPI)
Strategies For Bone Tissue Engineering: Novel Material Formulations And Select Biophysical Stimuli
1:30 - 4:30 PM    Nanobiotechnology Session
Chairs:  James Turner (WC) and James Castracane (UA)
1:30 Dr. H. Craighead (Cornell)
NanoBioTechnology: Interfacing Nanotechnology and Biology 
2:20 James Turner (WC)
The Cell Biology Nanotechnology Interface
2:40 Bill Shain (WC)
Brain Replacement Parts through Nanotechnology
3:00 Break
3:20 James Castracane (UA)
NanoBioTech Research at the University at Albany Institute for Materials:Component Development and System Integration
3:50 Bai Xu (UA)
Design and Fabrication of a Low-Power, Low-Voltage Microvalve for Biomedical Applications
4:10 Ravi Kane (RPI)
Biomimetic Approaches To Drug Design: The Design Of Polyvalent Nanoscale Antagonists
7:30-9:30 PM   Bioseparations and Molecular Engineering Session
Chairs: Georges Belfort (RPI) and Vicky Derbyshire (WC)
7:30 Georges Belfort (RPI)
Molecular Separations, a Core Technology for Genomics and Proteomics
8:00 Steven Cramer (RPI)
Bioseparations Research at RPI
8:30 Susan Sharfstein (RPI)
The Role of Cell Culture Environment on Recombinant Protein Glycosylation
8:50 Victoria Derbyshire (WC)
Applications of Inteins in Protein Purification
9:10 Shekhar Garde (RPI)
Molecular Modeling of Biomolecules and their Interactions
Saturday (9/15) Imaging Day
9:00-11:50 AM Medical Imaging Session 
Chairs: John Schenck (GE CR&D) and David Isaacson (RPI)
9:00 Dr. K. Thulborn (Univ. Illinois/Chicago)
Functional Brain Imaging in the Clinic: A Test of Technology
9:45 Break
10:00 A. Nadeem Ishaque (GE CR&D)
Molecular Imaging
10:20 David Isaacson (RPI)
Electrical Impedance Imaging
10:40 William Lorensen (GE CR&D)
Three-dimensional Medical Segmentation and Registration
11:10  Stephen Romero (Union Coll)
Investigating Cognitive Neuroplasticity in Single Cases and Patient Groups
11:30 Egidijus Uzgiris (GE CR&D)
New Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
1:30-4:40 PM    Cell and Tissue Imaging Session
Chairs: Colin Izzard (UA) and James Turner (WC)
1:30  Peter So (MIT)
Tissue and Cell Imaging Using Two-Photon Excitation Fluorescence and Confocal Microscopy
2:20 Colin Izzard (UA)
The University at Albany Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope Facility: Present and Future Plans
2:35 Alexey Khodjakov (WC)
Exploring Centrosome Functions Using GFP-Imaging and Laser Microsurgery
3:00 Break
3:20 Badrinath Roysam (RPI)
Multi-Dimensional Quantitative Image Analysis Tools for Biological Microscopy
3:40 Frank Rice (AMC)
Sensory, Motor and Trophic Interactions Between Peripheral Innervation and Non-Neural Tissues
4:00 Concetta DiRusso (AMC)
Imaging Fatty Acid Transport in Living Cells
4:20 Michelle Lennartz (AMC)
Imaging PKC in Living Cells
7:30-9:30 PM    Molecular Structure Session
Chairs: Carmen Mannella (WC) and Patrick Van Roey (WC)
7:30 Dr. J. Frank (HHMI)
The Ribosome – A Molecular Machine in Motion
8:10 Raj Agrawal (WC)
Three-Dimensional Cryo-Electron Microscopic Study of Dynamics of Elongation Factor-G and Ribosome During Translocation
8:30 Patrick Van Roey (WC)
Intermolecular Interactions at Atomic Resolution: X-Ray Crystallography
8:50 Curt Breneman (RPI)
Features of Conformation-sensitive TAE Descriptors for Protein Modeling
9:10 David LeMaster (WC)
Oligosaccharide NMR Structural Analysis Utilizing 3D Long Range 1H-13C Spin Coupling
Sunday (9/16)  Connecting
9:30 AM -12:00 PM   Discussion of Collaborations


 
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